Race and Stratification.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Working Group on Race and Stratification met April 8 in Cambridge and online. Working Group Director Trevon Logan of The Ohio State University; Research Associates Rodney Andrews of the University of Texas at Dallas and Lisa D. Cook of Michigan State University; and Faculty Research Fellow Conrad Miller of the University of California, Berkeley organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Phillip B. Levine, Wellesley College and NBER, and Dubravka Ritter, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, "The Racial Wealth Gap, Financial Aid, and College Access"

* Rahul Goravara, Yale University, "Racial Disparities in Housing Evictions"

* Alex Chan, Stanford University, "Discrimination and Quality Signals: A Field Experiment with Healthcare Shoppers"

* Andrew Butters, Daniel W. Sacks, and Boyoung Seo, Indiana University, "Racial Differences in Prices Paid"

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